Viewsonic Android ViewPad 7 tablet heading to the UK for £350

Viewsonic has grabbed a megaphone, jumped up on its soapbox made from old monitors and barked out the news to the denizens of Blighty, “Hear Ye! The ViewPad 7 is coming your way!”

Viewsonic has grabbed a megaphone, jumped up on its soapbox made from old monitors and barked out the news to the denizens of Blighty, “Hear Ye! The ViewPad 7 is coming your way!”

If, like us, your inbox is a hideous, sprawling, disorganised mess stuffed full of assorted emails of wildly varying importance, then hope may be at hand courtesy of Google’s new Priority inbox system.

We’re a pretty hard-nosed, cynical bunch here at Wirefresh, but Arcade Fire’s Google Maps interactive video mash-up got a few jaws dropping around the office.

Currently sizzling away on the 43rumors site are some hot rumours of a mini-flurry of new Olympus camera-related launches coming up.

Samsung has announced that consumers are feeling the love for their Android Galaxy S smartphones in a big way, with the company shifting no less than one million of ‘em since July 15th.
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One of our readers managed to collect his Amazon Kindle 3G today, and has kindly forwarded his first impressions of the innovative eBook reader.
We’re hoping to get our hands on the device later and post up some photos and our own impressions, but here’s ‘Memespring’s’ hands on report:

Our recent article comparing the new Panasonic Lumix LX5 and Canon Powershot S95 high end cameras has resulted in us getting a fair bit of email, so we thought we’d post a follow up article answering some of the points raised.

HTC Desire owners on the UK Orange network are likely to be disappointed at the news that they’re not going to get the eagerly anticipated Android OS update until the middle of September.
Diaspora, an open source open alternative to the monstrously popular social networking site Facebook is set to launch on 15th September.
Describing itself as a “privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do it all, open source social network”, the Diaspora project has been driven by four impossibly fresh-faced New York students – three computer scientists and a mathematician – who have so far raised $200,000 (£140,000) in funding.

Back in the day, cyclists keen to keep a record of their travels had to employ a map for directions and listen to the relentless click of a metal wheel clip nudging against a mechanical device for recording the miles travelled, but Garmin’s touchscreen Edge 800 cycling GPS unit cuts a far more modern dash.

We’re still cruelly starved of this feature over here in Blighty, but Google is reporting that their new integrated Gmail calling feature has proved an almighty hit in the US.

Google has launched its new Realtime Search feature, which serves up real-time, live search results from a wide set of sources.

Canon has announced their new Canon EOS 60D dSLR, a mid-priced camera offering an 18megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and articulated LCD display.

With Amazon’s Kindle eReader proving a hugely desirable item, it’s not surprising that other manufacturers are keen to bag themselves some of the action, and charging over the horizon at a rate of knots is Acer’s LumiRead eBook reader.

With the newly announced Facebook Places already sending the eyebrows of privacy campaigners arcing skywards, a nifty new infographic has appeared highlighting Facebook’s less than illustrious track record on privacy.
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